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TikTok has turned culture into a feedback loop of impulse and machine learning

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292 points natalie3p | 1 comments | 10 Sep 25 16:08 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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zoba ◴[10 Sep 25 16:30 UTC] No.45200103[source]▶
So strange to think about how Vine could’ve won this and an American company could’ve been the leader here.
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casey2 ◴[10 Sep 25 17:16 UTC] No.45200798[source]▶
Or YouTube. Short form animation was the largest draw of views in the early days before they chose to kill it and become a "serious platform"
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1. jonbiggums22 ◴[10 Sep 25 17:22 UTC] No.45200872[source]▶
I thought the kept incentivizing longer content so they could cram more ads into the videos. Hard to get some one to watch a 20 second ad for a 2 minute video, but if you can convince everyone to pad that thing up to 10 minutes you could stuff at least 2 ads in there.